The DVDs: The Imitation Game; ’71

The Imitation Game (12) ★★★☆☆ As a primer in Alan Turing’s invaluable contribution to ending the Second World War, this very British tale is like the best Sunday-night TV drama around — fired along by punchy dialogue, Charles Dance’s military stiff and Benedict Cumberbatch nailing the Enigmatic hero (think a tweedier Sherlock, with George Orwell hair).

’71 (15)★★★★☆ Jack O’Connell is a British soldier stranded behind enemy lines in 1971 Belfast. This tense survival drama unfolds over one long, dark night like some awful dream, the fire-bombed streets and rotting houses depicted so convincingly you feel like you’re being hunted down alongside him.

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